Canadian man fuming after nursing home workers caught on camera abusing his 85-year-old mother are not criminally charged (VIDEO)

Shocking undercover footage also shows staff changing the dementia-suffering 85-year-old's diaper with her bedroom door wide open. Camille Parent set up secret cameras in his mom Hellen MacDonald's room after becoming suspicious about how she was being treated. (www.sunnewsnetwork.ca)

A Canadian man whose hidden camera sting caught nursing home workers abusing his elderly mother is furious that the ex-staffers haven't been criminally charged, Canadian media reports.

Camille Parent set up secret cameras in his mother Hellen MacDonald's room at the St. Joseph's at Fleming long-term-care home in Peterborough, Ontario, over three weeks this spring after becoming suspicious that she was being mistreated.

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In one case, Parent said his mother, who suffers from dementia, had a black eye and no one could tell him how she got it.

The camera caught staffers manhandling the 85-year-old patient, including one instance where a nurse shoved a feces-stained rag in MacDonald's face after wiping her backside.

Nursing home patient Hellen MacDonald. An unexplained black eye led her daughter to set up a hidden camera in her room. (ctvnews.ca)

Another nurse was caught blowing her nose on MacDonald's sheets.

Four employees were suspended and eventually fired after an investigation by both St. Joseph's and Ontario's heath ministry.

However, police recently told Parent they wouldn't be taking the case any further and that the workers would not be charged criminally, CTV reported.

Parent fumed at the decision, arguing that charges would have been brought had the abuse occurred at a day care center.

Four workers caught abusing MacDonald were fired, but will not be charged criminally, police said. (www.sunnewsnetwork.ca)

"It's despicable," Parent told CTV News. "If you hurt somebody or abuse somebody, you either go to jail or you get charged."

Parent was planning to meet with Peterborough police and prosecutors on Friday to discuss the decision.

Authorities were expected to make a statement after the meeting, CTV reported.

Lynn MacDonald, the director or the National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly, told CTV the decision was "disgusting."

I think it was an obscenity what they did to that woman and if it had been a child or a younger middle-aged person, they would have never gotten away with it," she said.